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Creator
Foscolo, Ugo, 1778-1827
Call number
Pforz Ms
Physical description
1 item
Preferred Citation
Ugo Foscolo manuscript material : 1 item, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library
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Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle
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Ugo Foscolo, Italian writer and poet. His novel Ultime Lettere di Jacopo Ortis was published in 1802, and from 1816 until his death he lived in London. Foscolo was chiefly responsible for a controversial essay on contemporary Italian literature which appeared in John Cam Hobhouse's Historical Illustrations to Childe Harold, Canto IV (1818). · To Anne Murray, wife of publisher John Murray II : 1 autograph letter signed : 18 May 1822 : (MISC 1362) : begins, "The verses reach you late because I was desirous of making up for their trivial value by paying a little more attention to their workmanship..." ; poem not present.

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Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Third Floor, Room 319

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